This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028 to investigate leaf airspaces in plants and their implications for carbon-water balance models. The project will test the assumption that leaf airspaces are saturated with water vapor, which is used in important Earth systems models. If the project demonstrates that these airspaces are unsaturated, it could overturn decades of research and require significant changes to these models. The research aims to clarify how plants adapt to changing environmental conditions and could lead to the development of crops that use less water. The fellowship will also support training and outreach activities to expand participation of diverse communities in science.
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